When Did Panic Selling Become a Strategy?

Investors: Keep your itchy finger off the triggerWhat followed the 2008 mass exodus from stock funds? A five-year, cumulative 8.6 percent return for the S&P 500.

How about that 550-point intraday dive last week in the Dow! Did that finally get you to sell?

Or was it one of the many headlines about the trillions of dollars that have been wiped out of the stock market in the worst start for the Dow in history — since 1897! And worst start for the S&P 500 since the Great Depression began in 1929.